Michelle Daigle

I am Mushkegowuk (Cree), a member of Constance Lake First Nation in Treaty 9 Ontario Canada, and a scholar of Indigenous Studies and Human Geography specializing in the field of Indigenous Geographies. Drawing on more than 20 years of collaborations with Indigenous communities and organizations in Canada and the U.S., my research contributes to Indigenous politics and theory by examining how land-based practices, care work, kinship relations and mobilities provide nuanced and expansive conceptions of Indigenous liberation. My research is grounded in small-scale collaborations with Cree, Anishinaabe and Oji-Cree Elders and Knowledge Keepers in Treaty 9 to understand how they embody care work, and land-based and water-based governance, amid the impacts of colonial policies and land dispossession, gendered and racial violences, and extractive industries and environmental destruction. Another major area of my research program consists of collaborations with scholars who contribute to understandings of racial colonial violence in the fields of Indigenous

Geographies, Black Geographies, Latinx Geographies and Asian Geographies, to co-theorize relational geographies of conquest and liberation between Indigenous and other colonized peoples.

I am currently accepting graduate students who work on topics related to Indigenous and anti-colonial geographies. Please contact me directly if you would like to discuss the possibility of working with me.

Publications

Daigle, M. 2026. Mobilize: The Analytics & Politics of Indigenous Movement. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.

Daigle, M. 2025. Indigenous Peoples’ Geographies II: Indigenous Environmental Politics, or Land Matters. Progress in Human Geography.

Dorries, H. and Daigle, M. 2024. Land Back: Relational Landscapes of Indigenous Resistance Across the Americas. Boston: Harvard University Press.

Daigle, M. 2023. Indigenous Methodologies of Care & Movement. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 46 (3): 81-100.

Vasudevan, P., Ramírez, M. M., Mendoza, Y. G., & Daigle, M. 2023. Storytelling Earth and Body. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 113 (7): 1728–1744.

Daigle, M. and M. Ramirez. 2021. Space. Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies, K.W. Tompkins eds. NYU Press.

Daigle, M. 2019. The Spectacle of Reconciliation: On (the) Unsettling Responsibilities to Indigenous Peoples in the Academy. Environment and Planning: D: Society and Space: 703-721.